Metrics : what counts in global health / Vincanne Adams, editor.
Contributor(s): Adams, Vincanne [editor.].
Series: Critical global health: Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780822360834 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0822360837 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780822360971 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): World health -- Research | World health -- Econometric models | Health status indicators -- Evaluation | Social indicators -- EvaluationGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 362.1072| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RA441 .M48 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000005069 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.
Metrics of the global sovereign : numbers and stories in global health / Vincanne Adams -- Estimating death : a close reading of maternal mortality metrics in Malawi / Claire L. Wendland -- The politics of monitoring maternal mortality in Nigeria / Adeola Oni-Orisan -- The power of data : global malaria governance and the Senegalese data retention strike / Marlee Tichenor -- Native sovereignty by the numbers : the metrics of Yupik behavioral health programs / Molly Hales -- Metrics and market logics in global health / Susan Erikson -- When good works count / Lily Walkover -- When numbers and stories collide : randomized controlled trials and the search for ethnographic fidelity in the Veterans Administration / Carolyn Smith-Morris -- The tyranny of the widget : an American medical aid organization's struggles with quantification / Pierre Minn -- Epilogue: What counts in good global health? / Vincanne Adams.